GHANA’S MOST INTENSE IVY LEAGUE BOOTCAMP
GOOD GRADES AND GOOD TEST SCORES ARE ONLY A SMALL PART OF IT ALL
Many many students have them and 80% will get rejected. You must do things that make an admissions officer go “wow!”.
Star quality is being an Olympic athlete; a world ranked chess player; or a kid who saves his money for two years to go to Tanzania to live among the hadza people to learn real hadza clicking language and singing. Star quality is also the ability to have survived tremendous adversity; to have a great survivor’s story.
THE NAGGING QUESTION
The question a client must truly answer in the admissions process is “Why do I care that you exist?” Clients who answer this well get in! our job is to help clients take risks and develop the kinds of ideas that get noticed!! Too many clients want to be “good boys and girls” when they really need to be crackingly exciting. It is a heroic tale of a brave and interesting young life. It must be unique and startling! It is not a checklist of the “achievements” your parents made you do.
Many many students have them and 80% will get rejected. You must do things that make an admissions officer go “wow!”.
A GREAT ESSAY OR A GREAT INTERVIEW IS AN ADVENTURE STORY.
It is a heroic tale of a brave and interesting young life. It must be unique and startling! It is not a checklist
Rescue and breed freshwater stingrays. Make their own documentary on teen drug addicted prostitutes. Present a plan for the reclamation of the Atiwa forest in Ghana
Talk endemic ‘galamseyers’ (Deliberate poluters of water bodies) into giving up their craft for the sake of humanity.
Do things other kids cannot even imagine and that scare parents. They don’t spend their lives just shopping at the mall.
In summary, it is about passion, creativity and ability over a long period of time. It is a genuine commitment to pushing the boundaries and doing something extraordinary.
In the end, what impresses a top school is a person who, with very few opportunities, was able to achieve something great. Not a person with many opportunities who managed to do very little! We have found intelligence without courage to be boring.
Our counselors are graduates of Phillips Exeter Academy, Stanford University, Yale University, Cornell, NYU etc. They have a combined experience of 30-man years in the field of university admissions counseling.
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